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The defense attorneys laid out this case about a man had been unjustly convicted. >> coopers defense told saunders for years theyd been unsuccessful in petitioning the courts for newly available testing which could exonerate cooper. >> kevin cooper kept saying im not guilty, do dna testing now that you can do it. if it shows im guilty, then you can go ahead and execute me. i walked out there thinking, whoa, i really made a case. >> he was handling coopers appeals. >> we felt that the ongoing req...

A-41 for additional dna testing. results from the tan t-shirt also changed drastically. at the original trial, the t-shirt was only shone to have doug ryans blood on it. >> when the t-shirt was tested, at this time, there was additional blood located on the upper part of the t-shirt across the chest. it was previous to this time. >> coopers defense argued that the new blood on the t-shirt and the newly discovered blood found on a-41 only could have come from one place. the bile of coopers blood,...

Legislation in california would grant kevin cooper the right to dna testing. >> all these years that my case was in the appeals courts, i never got a fair hearing, i would always get denied for one reason or the next. so i felt very bad. very discouraged until dna testing came along, and i had a shot. >> the state would perform dna tests on blood sample a-41, taken from the ryans hallway and blood on the tan shirt thought to have been thrown from their stolen station wagon. the results would det...

After several years, the cold case unit of the michigan state police decided to take a second look at the murders of margarette eby and nancy ludwig. they thought that perhaps the original investigators might have missed something. dna testing revealed the same man killed both women. but they had no idea to whom the dna belonged. so they concentrated on the partial fingerprint from the faucet in margarette ebys bathroom. >> the crime lab was able to identify a small print on the faucet knob in t...

Evidence of sexual assault. but at the time, dna testing was still in its infancy. >> in 1986, we werent even online. our state was not doing dna testing. although it was beginning to be done in other places, there were only a few select laboratories that did it, and it was a very, very expensive process. >> but by the time nancy ludwig was murdered, dna testing was routine. and to the surprise of investigators, dna testing proved what margarette ebys son knew instinctively, that the same man ki...

What did you hit him with? >> maybe a board. >> maybe a board? did you hit him with a board or you didnt hit him with a board, alvin? >> i dont know. >> what they failed to see is he doesnt have any memories of doing the things that theyre accusing him of doing, that he then caves in ultimately and passively accepts. and thats why hes using that language. >> dr. hayes-hammer discovered that alvins iq was 74 and he had dropped out of school in the ninth grade. >> you have many people with low iqs...

>> it came from the bathroom in the upstairs bedroom where margarette eby was found. >> mm-hmm. >> the house that you said you had never been in. so right now, jeff, theres no question that youre the person thats responsible. the question that needs to be answered is, why? and what can we do to help you? >> well, there is no why, cause i didnt do it. so -- i just need to see an attorney now. because i know i didnt do anything and i need to -- >> when gorton asked for a lawyer, the interview stop...

He was out and about. >> less than six hours after henry said he saw williams and cater here, police heard a splash under this bridge. caters body washed up downstream two days later. 30 years ago, there was no dna testing. now there is. and so new evidence. remember those two human hairs found inside 11-year-old patrick baltazars shirt? in 2007, the hair fragments were sent to the fbis dna laboratory in quantico, virginia. the result? the lab said it found this dna sequence in only 29 out of mo...

And underwear, and theyre all consistent with a male of brandons build, and theres blood thats evident on these clothes. >> dna testing of the blood on brandons clothes revealed it was devon guzmans. >> it is direct evidence that shows that the husband, brandon bloss, had contact with this victim and when she was bleeding. you know, its tough to explain that one. >> brandon bloss and michelle hetzel were arrested and charged with first-degree murder. a new sea chance to tryew look. something dif...

You go to bed. >> darlies case is currently on hold pending dna testing. cooper believes that the results specifically those of the bloody fingerprint will finally prove that there was an intruder at the home on the night of the murders. >> if we get it reversed by the appellate court, they have to try or dismiss it, with all the evidence that has been established over time. theyre not going to retry this case in my opinion. well prepared attorneys with a good strategy will eat the prosecution a...